Sources: Reuters
At least 61 people, mostly Sudanese refugees, are missing after a boat carrying 74 passengers capsized off Tobruk, Cyrenaica, Libya. 2025-09-13
A boat carrying over 171 people sank in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, killing at least 11 people. 160 others were rescued. 2024-06-7
In coordination with Libya’s internationally recognized government, American special operations forces and FBI agents capture Mustafa al-Imam, a militant who allegedly was involved in the 2012 Benghazi attack, at an unknown location in Libya. 2017-10-29
The United States launches airstrikes on ISIL positions in the Libyan city of Sirte following a request from the UN-backed Government of National Accord. Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, in a televised address, says the strikes have caused "heavy ISIL losses". 2016-08-1
Martin Kobler, United Nations envoy to Libya, announces the country's two rival parliaments agreement to set a target date of Dec. 16 to sign a U.N.-sponsored agreement on forming a national unity government. 2015-12-11
Egypt bombs Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant targets in the city of Derna in Libya following the execution of 21 Coptic Christians recently. 2015-02-16
Five gunmen at the Libyan Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli attack with at least ten dead. The hotel was previously the location in 2013 where a former prime minister was abducted. 2015-01-27
A Libyan warplane bombs a Greek-operated oil tanker anchored offshore the city of Derna, killing two sailors, one Greek and one Romanian. The Greek government condemned what it called an "unprovoked and cowardly" attack and demanded an investigation and punishment for those responsible. 2015-01-5
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, dies at his home in the Libyan capital of Tripoli at the age of 60. 2012-05-20
The House of Commons votes in favour of the United Kingdom's involvement in military action in Libya. 2011-03-21